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Just tonight my PC started bleeping away at me. Everything was fine and the machine is still perfectly functional but I've found I'm getting a fluctuation in one of the voltages ( I havn't a clue what this relates to ...the cpu I'd imagine) its the +3.3 one and its now hanging around 2.8-3V and the alarm goes off intermittently.

I've disabled the monitoring alarm for the time being but anyone know if this is going to be a problem ?? Machine has been fine for 4 months and it wasn't doing anything taxing at the time it the alarm started. I've started a trace on the 3.3V setting to see what it does over time.

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Should be 1.5v if you've an AGP 4x graphics card. Possibly just your monitoring prog - try Motherboard Monitor or another prog. Could be a problem with your PSU.

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not true. 3.3v is straight form the psu. the agp voltage is not related and can be derived from either 3.3,5v or 12v depending on the motherboard. Wether the agp voltage is 3.3v (AGPx2 and AGPx4), 1.5v (AGPx4 ONLY) or 0.8v (AGPx8) it doesnt have anything to do with the 3.3v line from the psu.

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Opened it up. The main internal power connector has some pull applied on it by the main cable bundle and because its a tower and the board is vertical gravity had pulled on the plug over time. The top of the plug had pulled out ever so slightly ( right where the 3.3v pins are! Pushed it back in and took the strain off the cable and its fine...touchwood.

Now the 3.3V is reading 3.4 -3.5 so I assume its healthy!
phew what a palava